Herzog is to take part in an official ceremony inaugurating Kyiv’s Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli gymnastics coach reflects on Kyiv win
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Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli gymnastics coach reflects on Kyiv win
“I tell my girls, everything we do is in the name of Israel,” said Ira Vigdorchik. “You can only be an Olympic champion if you feel you are part of your country. Everything we are doing is for the flag of Israel.”
(January 25, 2021 / JNS) As the international day commemorating the memory of the victims of the Holocaust approaches on Jan. 27, Ira Vigdorchik, the head coach of the Israeli rhythmic gymnastics team, will be honored at the first-ever online international academic conference on the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine the first and most well-documented massacre by Nazi German forces during their campaign in the Soviet Union during World War II. On Sept. 29-30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were massacred and buried in mass graves, and it is estimated that between 100,000 to 150,000 people were killed at Babi Yar